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Quote by Gaston Bachelard
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we d

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. – Gaston Bachelard

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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid. – Gaston Bachelard

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When a blind man carries a lame man both go forward. – Swedish Proverb

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Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it. – Proverb

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There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself. – Andrew Carnegie

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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother. – Susan B. Anthony

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